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- Comment on Kemi Badenoch: I’d go further than Farage and deport women and children 7 hours ago:
Of course she will, said the right wing tory muppet supporting newspaper, stirring up hatred and division.
It will be in the daily mail in a few days, to keep the anger and hatred fresh in people’s minds.
The telegraph is now owned by some american hustle company Redbird.
In May this year, RedBird Capital, an investment management firm, bought the stake owned by Emirati royal Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Sultan al-Nahyan who had bankrolled an earlier bid.
RedBird Capital owns AC Milan.
Top quality meaningless reporting.
- Comment on Tony Blair attends White House meeting with Trump on postwar Gaza 11 hours ago:
finally the two warmongers meet
Tony will tell some lies about weapons of mass descruction that the Palestinians have tucked away, and we will dive into the next war, As a precursor to invading Iran.
After all it is 22 years since warmonger Tony ignited the flames of war in the middle east, with his bullshit claims of WMD’s.
good ole Tony!
The Chilcot report in 2016 revealed the extent to which Blair manipulated (or even fabricated) evidence and distorted reality in a desperate bid to justify the war.
Smug looking cunt!
- Comment on Mounjaro maker pauses shipments of weight-loss drug to UK 11 hours ago:
Hey Flamekebab
Of course there will be instances where any drug will be of benefit to that person.
It is common for women to carry a little weight after birth.
She needs all those extra nutrients to support baby.
I am just very anti big pharma. I have seen far too much damage caused by fantasy drugs, since the introduction of Prozac (Fluoxetine) in the late 1980’s, working in substance misuse and in my practice as a psychotherapist.
For instance, the overprescribing of anti-depressants for the natural human experience of sadness is not OK with me. Sadness, because of death or loss is not clinical depression.
I am an existentialist and strongly believe that all people should take responsibility for their lives.
This also includes not relying on any medication to lose weight, which ultimately is avoiding the main issue at hand.
best of luck with young new addition to the world
- Comment on Mounjaro maker pauses shipments of weight-loss drug to UK 13 hours ago:
Which can only be a good thing.
All these weight loss drugs remind me of methadone.
I was a care coordinator and methadone dispenser for 15 years.
Methadone, was developed by the Nazi’s in WW2 because the alies managed to prevent the importation of Morphine into Germany. The Nazi’s had no choice but to developed the synthetic drug Methadone to replace Morphine on the battlefield.
When a person is addicted to heroin and wants to quit. He has two choices, a maintenance prescription or a reduction prescription.
The idea of the maintenance prescription is to maintain the addiction by giving the user enough methadone so he does not experience withdrawal symptom and can engage in life without constantly getting involved in crime and unsafe practices by using and buying heroin. If the user stops taking his methadone prescription he will have to start using heroin again to prevent withdrawal symptoms.
The idea of the reduction prescription, is to slowly reduce the amount of methadone down to zero, over a period of time, so the user can be clean and free of heroin.
Weight loss drugs are like a methadone maintenance prescription.
In that it may reduce the overall weight of the person for short period, but ultimately the person is still reliant on the weight loss drug to reach their goals. This is an addiction.
Addiction is a neuropsychological disorder characterized by a persistent and intense urge (to lose weight) to use a drug or engage in a behavior that produces natural reward (weight loss) despite substantial harm and other negative consequences.
Like heroin addicts stopping methadone and returning to heroin, those who are overweight will put on weigh as soon as the weight loss drug is stopped. So there is a great need to continue with the addictive drug.
Just like the cycle of change.
- Comment on NHS to lose out on new drugs, pharma firm warns 13 hours ago:
So, the UK, as one of the most wealthy countries in the world is ill equiped and doesn’t have the resources or talent to make its own medicines.
The NHS is more privatised that we care to think.
An example:
I have just had an ENT (ear nose and throat) appointment at my local hospital because I cannot hear in my left ear
The waiting room wasn’t packed solid, staff were friendly, there was calm and efficiency all around, Unlike other waiting rooms I have visited.
I had a scan, all was OK. its just old age.
I had a long chat with the ENT specialist.
He told me that the building I had my NHS appointment in, was in fact a private part of the hospital.
hidden within the grounds of an NHS hospital, hiding in plain sight with NHS signage, is a privatised hospital wing.
He told me about the extreme costs that the NHS has to pay because of having to use prefered approved providers (politically connected suppliers) for all its medical equipment.
He pointed at all the medical machines (monty python, machines that go ping) in the room and said that his brother, a specialist in private practice, has exactly the same medical devices in his Slovakian practice that cost him £5,000.
Whereas the NHS has to pay up to £100,000 for exactly the same devices, because they are unable to source cheaper suppliers. they have restrictive contracts that forbids them from buying cheaper and better products from another supplier.
He told me that this is what is drainig NHS coffers of money that should be going to patient care.
Another case of hidden politically driven VIP lanes draining the NHS of its funding.
- Comment on Reeves ‘plots tax raid on landlords’ to help plug £40bn Budget black hole 14 hours ago:
I agree with Novamdomum
35 years ago, I used to have my own business, designing, bulding and installing high end bathrooms.
Marble, natural stone, sunken baths, steam rooms, HansGrohe shower heads and multi jet systems etc etc.
You know, the muppets who could afford to pay £400 for a pair of gold plated basin taps and import marble directly from Italy.
I got a phone call one day from a Property developer, who asked me if I would be interested in creating a contract with him to maintain his property portfolio.
I drove to his big gaff in Weybridge and we discussed his proposals.
He said, he had just bought 19 properties at a new build in Feltham High street near the train station.
I looked into these properties, They were built and sold as “affordable housing” for the local residents.
This guy had bought 19 of them, specifically to rent out to Heathrow airport staff. at rents £1,000 a month more than the council were charging.
I turned him down! I’m a socialist who believes in an equal society, not a money grabbing tory.
This is what affordable housing is really about.
The first time I heard the words “affordable housing” coming from a lying MP’s lips, I knew it was a con.
Its not social housing, which the country lacks and desperately needs, but another means for the wealthy to make more money.
Landlords are ultimately very rich people. Typically, always moaning about being poor and not having enough.
How about just tax their personal earnings at 80% basic rate, rather than the rental properties they own, which will only be passed on to the renters.
If you own more than one house, your tax burden goes up incrementally on a per house basis. If you own two house, you pay an extra 10% tax, if you own 4 houses you pay 20% extra tax and so on, all the way up to 80% for the wealthiest.
Imagine all those properties that were bought 30 years ago, who’s 25 year mortgages are now fully paid off by the renters.
Landlords have made an absolute fortune, not only have renters paid their mortgages for them, but they have also made an obscene amount of money on the increased value of all the properties they own, over 30 years.
They should all fuck off, give their properties back to the people, and live happily on the money they have ripped off from the renters.
- Comment on Spelthorne Borough Council Public Space Protection Order 1 day ago:
Hey Daniel Quinn
I agree with you.
We have already seen “Hostile environment” being used by the previous government, to pressurise immigrants out of the country, now they are using the same tactics on kids.
What always amazes, me is that there are people who invest time and money inventing those things.
Clearly with zero empathy or understanding of their fellow man.
My personal gripe in Spelthorne is the state of the roads. The council for years had been using poor quality road stone and tarmac. They have intentionally used the cheaper large road stone, instead of the smaller recommended road stone, the larger stone drastically increases the road noise.
Why? Because they wasted our money on failed property developments to earn a few extra quid.
Thats why there are no birds and no morning chorus in my area.
I do prefer your way. replacing ads with public art, roads with bike infrastructure.
I could live with that.
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